From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: [External] : display-buffer-alist actions Date: Thu, 25 Feb 2021 09:26:36 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87sg5lgy2z.fsf@ucl.ac.uk> <87lfbc93fe.fsf@web.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="5379"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:S9NFt7doKHRA4EHv2vEzXebbrbY= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Thu Feb 25 15:27:28 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1lFHc0-0001Iz-DP for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 25 Feb 2021 15:27:28 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56408 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lFHbz-0000Ld-Fz for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Thu, 25 Feb 2021 09:27:27 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:33094) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lFHbI-0000Kj-OS for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Feb 2021 09:26:44 -0500 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]:45424) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1lFHbH-0002XZ-Ak for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Feb 2021 09:26:44 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1lFHbF-0000M0-DK for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Feb 2021 15:26:41 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -16 X-Spam_score: -1.7 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.7 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:128247 Archived-At: > My complaint is that we don't also provide some simple to use > constructs for simple use cases. Patches welcome in this respect. > But I do appreciate that it's still supported. I hope it will > continue to be so. And I still have hopes that the deprecation will > be lifted from it someday. Users are in general unaware of it now (it > was removed from the manual etc.), even though it's very good for the > simple use cases it handles. I don't think keeping those vars around is the right solution (because those special-display* vars make the overall system more complex). Better would be to provide new ways to do the same, which are just as easy&simple but which rely on `display-buffer-alist`. Stefan